“Roger stayed at Ipswich for four years in the youth system but was faced with the obstacles that so many Asians still face nowadays so we can only imagine the hurdles he had to try and overcome back then.”

“During the 1960s, many people in America were high on soccer. Pundits considered it sport of the future and speculated that soon Americans would be among the world’s elite. One of the many people championing the emergence of professional soccer in the North America was the legendary Hungarian national team and Real Madrid forward Ferenc Puskas.”

“Parents screaming from the sidelines have long been an unspoken problem in youth football, but one revolutionary kids’ coach in Germany has suggested three simple rules to combat the problem and his ideas have started to spark interested in the upper echelons of the game’s governing bodies…”

“In December 1873 the Royal Engineers went on tour to Sheffield and the Midlands. The Engineers team were all serving officers and the tour was arranged around periods of leave.
The three games played are often credited with introducing the Combination Game to a wider audience.”

“The contact between football and politics is inevitable, as football is part of society. Football itself is socially organised, institutions govern it, values are invested in it. The forms of organisation have a social base, values are contested as well as accepted.”

“How can one expect footballers to remain so politically correct when their governing body FIFA remain so intent on being so politically audacious. Life and politics are entwined as equally as life and football are. “

“The football crowd is still a huge vat of testosterone where mock machismo rules – hence the bare-chested, football-shirt wearing fans who refuse to flinch as the winter winds bite deep into the grandstands.”